After celebrated solo exhibitions of Vermeer and Rembrandt, the Rijksmuseum is set to unveil a new exhibition dedicated to the joyous painting of Frans Hals.
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00:10 He's not a sober artist.
00:27 The people, they often laugh, and that's very remarkable in the 17th century.
00:33 We nowadays, we always laugh, but it was out of the question that you should
00:38 show your teeth, that's against every etiquette.
00:43 So that he shows them is very remarkable.
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00:49 >> There's three kind of great painters of 17th century Dutch art, Rembrandt,
00:54 Vermeer, we've shown, and now Frans Hals.
00:57 They all work in the same medium, oil paint on canvas,
01:03 but they do something completely different with it.
01:07 With Rembrandt, it's emotion and the human condition.
01:11 With Vermeer, it's stillness.
01:14 And with Frans Hals, it's movement and it's joy.
01:18 And he was the first to discover this.
01:21 If you really have a brush stroke that's so broad, and he takes it to an extreme,
01:26 it's so free, you get movement in the painting itself,
01:30 by the way you use your material.
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